Maritime record MHG47893 - James Lewis: Inversanda, Loch Linnhe

NMRS Report: (14/09/2005)
NM95NW 8001 c. 94 59
N56 41 W5 22

Possibly on map sheets NM95NE or NN06SW.

NLO: Inversanda [name: NM 939 595]
Inversanda Bay [name centred NM 948 592]
Corran Narrows [name: NN 017 632]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47].

Oban, 1st Oct. `A schooner is on shore upon Inversanday [Inversanda] Point, near Conanferry [Corran Ferry].'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 8292, London, Monday October 5 1840.

Oban, 3rd Oct. `The JAMES LEWIS, Spearn, of Newry, for Riga, is on shore near Conan [Corran], but it is expected will be got off.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 8293, London, Tuesday October 6 1840.

Oban, 14th Oct. `The JAMES LEWIS, Shearer, bound to Riga, which was on shore near Conan [Corran], has been got off with but little damage.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 8305, London, Tuesday October 20 1840.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7572).

Inversanda Point is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 January 2005.